Tag: axis control

Example 10.8: The upper 95% CI is 3.69

Apologies for the long and unannounced break– the longest since we started blogging, three and a half years ago. I was writing a 2-day course for SAS users to learn R. Contact me if you’re interested. And Nick and I are beginning work on the second…

Example 9.23: Demonstrating proportional hazards

A colleague recently asked after a slide suitable for explaining proportional hazards. In particular, she was concerned that her audience not focus on the time to event or probability of the event. An initial thought was to display the cumulative haz…

Example 8.3: pyramid plots

Pyramid plots are a common way to display the distribution of age groups in a human population. The percentages of people within a given age category are arranged in a barplot, often back to back. Such displays can be used distinguish males vs. femal…